Re: Google site ordering (Was: Archiving information)
> > I assume he knew what he was talking about (via his Web-site engineering > > people). I suppose I could research it, but I don't have the time right > > at the moment. I'd love to hear if anyone else knows more. > > It is true. Google now marks any site that is not using HTTPS as > "insecure", and uses that as a negative weight in their rankig > algorithm. > > I have mixed feelings about this. I do think that FORCING people to use > TLS encryption is a bad thing. On the other hand, we live in strange > times -- many ISPs are intercepting HTTP traffic and injecting content > into the pages. Using TLS encryption is an effective way to avoid this > (for now). I personally enforce TLS on all my sites just for that > reason. I offer both on Floodgap pages. I don't see why it should be an either-or proposition. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- The future's got all the time in the world! -- Dinosaur Comics #1932 ---
Re: Google site ordering (Was: Archiving information)
Noel Chiappa via cctalk writes: > I assume he knew what he was talking about (via his Web-site engineering > people). I suppose I could research it, but I don't have the time right > at the moment. I'd love to hear if anyone else knows more. It is true. Google now marks any site that is not using HTTPS as "insecure", and uses that as a negative weight in their rankig algorithm. I have mixed feelings about this. I do think that FORCING people to use TLS encryption is a bad thing. On the other hand, we live in strange times -- many ISPs are intercepting HTTP traffic and injecting content into the pages. Using TLS encryption is an effective way to avoid this (for now). I personally enforce TLS on all my sites just for that reason. > Noel -Seth -- Seth Morabito Poulsbo, WA, USA w...@loomcom.com
Google site ordering (Was: Archiving information)
> From: Christian Corti >> An additional issue, I think, is that Google is deprecating sites that >> use HTTP, versus HTTPS. > Not true, in contrary, Google even crawls through FTP sites :-) I did say "deprecate", not 'ignore totally'! :-) Here's what I know: An e-commerce site where I do a lot of business announced that they would switch to using HTTPS. I grumped, because I'd have to use a browser I don't like as much. The owner wrote back as follows: "next month Google will begin to demote all websites that are not https secure" I assume he knew what he was talking about (via his Web-site engineering people). I suppose I could research it, but I don't have the time right at the moment. I'd love to hear if anyone else knows more. Noel
